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General and Gaming => Classic Video Games => Topic started by: htimreimer on May 13, 2012, 10:27:53 am
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for me it started when my older brother went to volunteered at a garage sell (i was about 7,8 or 9) and he came back with a comforter from a hotel,a nes with one game one controller and all of the cords and something that i can remember for free
we played with it for a bit and then put it a way years past and then three years ago i got it out of its box and with more mature eyes i played with it and love it and that is how i got in to video game collecting
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Collecting or playing? I got into playing games when I was really young, my mom brought home an Atari with some games she got from a garage sale. She loved garage sales and was getting atari games every day so within a few months, we had a couple hundred games. Then the Nintendo came out and I was mesmerized. It never stopped from there.
As far as collecting, I think it started with the PS1. I mean I saved games here and there from all my systems but the PS1 is what made search for games continuously for RPGs to add to my stock pile. I bought most of my games right off the shelf. Only as of late, have I started working on collecting NES carts.
I collect Dragon Warrior stuff cause its my first RPG. I also collect Final Fantasy stuff but there are so many games/items out there that it would be insane to really try to get everything (especially since I cant stand some of the games that were released).
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I have always loved video games, and I have always hated parting with them. Because of that, I guess you could say my insatiable hunger took over and before I knew I had built one of the largest collections in town. If I could get paid to play them I would.
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Mine started with going to my best friends house and playing on the Atari 2600, I then bought my first computer which was a ADAM. I would haul that thing downstairs when family came over. We played the hell out of Slither, Tappers, and Cabbage Patch Kids. I got tired of always hauling that computer down so I bought a ColecoVision. I never wanted to get rid of it due to being my first dedicated Video game system. Forward a few years later I get married and am now faced with a step son. I buy him his first NES, Then he wants a SNES I offered to get him one in trade for his NES and all Games, he was going to trade them off to get a SNES. Then the N64 came out and same offer etc.... up to about the XBOX. He will inherit all this one day so in hindsight he will get his stuff back. So that is how I got my start into collecting.
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There really wasn't one specific moment in my life that I decided to collect video games but I have always collected something, used to be marvel cards then dvds before moving on to video games.
The closest thing to a single event was when I got a job at a second hand store.
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We had an Atari 2600, then I got an NES for Easter one year. Played the hell out of Super Mario 1, Duck Hunt and 1943. Got Cobra Triangle shortly after and then my Nintendo Power sub and Dragon Warrior. I'd say after that it's been a blur of gaming. Eventually I started being able to buy games for myself and amassed a collection of games.
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I've been playing since my parents gave me a 2600 for Christmas 1982. Since then, I've always been a gamer. In the mid-90's, I moved towards PC gaming for about 5 years, but eventually came back to consoles.
I didn't really start collecting until after i graduated from college and had more free time and disposable income. I got bit by the nostalgia bug and started picking up old games and systems, which eventually turned into a hobby.
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My Grandmother - as explained in the top 5 thread.
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I've been playing as long as I can remember, as I stated in the Top 5 thread, since my parents had a ColecoVision even before I was born. As far as collecting, it started with just never selling things back. Then I met Ronalopolis, and he was more of a Sega kid, and he wanted to expose me to those games, as I had never really played anything on the Sega. Then one garage sale season, he and a friend came back from a sale with a TurboGrafx, many Intellivisions, a 2600, a couple of Odyssey 2s, literally over a hundred games, and I don't know what all else, all for $50. We had a blast that night, splitting games out and playing games we'd never tried. I realized then that garage sales could be a cheap way of getting games I had always wanted to try. His love is consoles, so he was always on the lookout for new systems, and every time he'd find one, I'd find some game I'd heard about to go with it.
10 years of collecting later... ;D
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I think I really started playing as early as I can remember, the year I was born my dad HAD to have the SNES, apparently according to my mom, I would actually play it fast forward a few years and my earliest memory of playing SNES was when I was about 5 with my dad beating DKC.
I only really got into collecting maybe a few years ago, I've always had quite a bit of games but am now regretting trading so many of them cause now I'm buying them back again
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I've always had quite a bit of games but am now regretting trading so many of them cause now I'm buying them back again
Same here. I've been jogging my memory trying to think of all the ps2, Xbox and gc games I had so I can get them all back. I'm pretty sure I'm making good headway on it. I'm still working on replacing my nes games too.
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Thats the only good thing about being super picky of the games I played when I was younger. It was a small list (although Ill be damned if any of them are cheap). Its been years and Im still trying to figure if I want to drop the cash to replace Magic Knight Rayearth, Vay, and some others I used to have.
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I've been playing games most of my life. So, what got me into video games is a mystery.
What got me into collecting is a different story. I'll give you the Readers Digest version.
My parents are incredably frugal (read: cheap) people. My Dad actually bought generic Kool Aid on more than one occasion. Kool Aid was $0.05 a pack and he wants to get the cheap stuff because it's $0.03. There are just some things you don't skimp on. Anyway, my parents are cheap and that rubbed off on me. After saving and paying $50 or $60 for a game, there was no way I would sell them or trade them for something newer. I still, to this day, have never sold or traded a game for less than I paid for it. So, I have every game I've ever bought new. That was the start of a collection without even realizing it.
Fast Foward >> a few years. I was in college and a friend came around asking if I still had my old Nintendo games. Of course I did. He offered $2 a piece for the whole 40 or 50 I had. Of course, I said no; but I did trade my R.O.B. for a boxed Star Wars for the NES. (I had a good start on a Star Wars collection at the time) One weekend I went with him to some flea markets and pawn shops looking for games. This was awesome! He got a pile of games for something like $20!
This inspired me. I pulled my old NES out of retirement and when through the classics. I had forgotten how great this thing was! Then, I hit a pawn shop or two, a flea market here and there, and a used game shop had opened up in town. The pieces fell into place. I was hooked. It started off with buying the games I never had a chance to play, but quickly evolved into buying every NES game I saw. I wanted a complete collection. Then, my friend that started all of this was moving into a smaller place, and didn't have room for his collection. I got first dibs and a great price. I was pumped to bring my old R.O.B. back home where he belonged. I was a NES collector for a long time.
Take another Fast Forward to a little over a year ago. I was nosing around a GoodWill and found a Sega Saturn with Virtua Fighter for $10. It was too good of a deal to pass up. That was a big mistake. My NES collecting mutated into Video Game collecting. So here we are today with piles and piles of video game stuff. I even refused to buy Sony stuff, and ended up with 3 Playstations. :D
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@turf, that's pretty cool that you were able to get your same ROB back. I know there are a few items I wish I had back.
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@turf, that's pretty cool that you were able to get your same ROB back. I know there are a few items I wish I had back.
Agreed, I've gotten rid of games, and some systems. I've slowly been working on replacing them with the same versions as what I originally had. The day I got a replacement MM2 cart was a good day for sure. Only I still miss my copy original copy, since it was a bday gift from my cousin and really sparked my love of the Mega Man series.
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I would say that I really got into game collection because of online shows such as "Pat the NES Punk", "The Angry Video Game Nerd" & "The Game Chasers"
I guess I could also add to that the nostalgia factor that strucked me someday.
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I would say that I really got into game collection because of online shows such as "Pat the NES Punk", "The Angry Video Game Nerd" & "The Game Chasers"
I guess I could also add to that the nostalgia factor that strucked me someday.
There's a little of this with me for sure. I hadn't started collecting when I started watching AVGN stuff (I started watching his stuff when he released his Karate Kid review), but when I started seeing his collection, I thought it may be cool to start doing that too, since my collection at the time was pretty tiny (not even a hundred games, what?). It wasn't the main reason, but it did have a bit of an influence.
But I really didn't start until I started buying old games (basically stuff that I used to like) from jjgames.com, I don't remember when I started exactly. They had great prices (at the time they were positively cheap compared to now) and free shipping on large orders (at the time for Canada, now they only have that in the US), so before long I started having hundreds of games.
Other "collecting" shows like Game Chasers and Pat the NES Punk's Flea Market Madness did mildly change how I find games, making me try to visit more flea markets (there are barely any around here though, the ones we do have tend to have multiple resellers, or just people who overprice their stuff "because it's old", but I do get good finds from time to time) and made me more of a haggler.
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Video game collecting never really started for me I just never got rid of any of it, its true I am a hoarder. :o
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My oldest son got me started a couple of years ago.
He's been gaming since he was 4 and I've been gaming since I could remember. One day he wanted to play some "old" games that I used to play at his age so I let him use a nes emulator and he fell in love. I told him that playing on an emulator wasn't the way it was done and here we are now.
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I'm pretty sure I've posted this before.
I was staying at my grandmas house when I was young and she had a SNES. My uncle said that i would really like The legend of Zelda so I played that a lot and beat the game. After that I looked through the pile of games and saw FFII. Decided to give it a try and was instantly hooked.
When I was a little older i got a PS2 and got FFX and played the heck out of that. I then got my hands on FF7 to 9.
Fast forward a few years, I live on my own, have a little income and Forte shows me his Megaman collection. I ask myself what's stopping me from collecting FF games now that I'm independent. I had no real answer, so I started collecting :P
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Forte shows me his Megaman collection.
And seeing Forte and Madmax's collections for their favorite series, made me realize that I should polish off the Castlevania games and go for CIB versions. It's a vicious cycle.
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A friend of mine got me FF7 black label as a gift. I was so excited.
Soon, I wanted Fire Emblem for Gamecube again. Before long, I made it a mission to get every Final Fantasy ever. It just escalated after that and for a while, I couldn't stop. Every time I would see something that I would want I felt like it was my only chance to get it.
I've since slowed down, and now I'm very picky with what I collect. Sure, I get new gen games, but I don't count those. A lot of what I do now is getting stuff I absouletly love or feel will go up in value over time. ie, xenoblade, Last Story, Disgaea Collector Edition, etc.
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A friend of mine got me FF7 black label as a gift. I was so excited.
Soon, I wanted Fire Emblem for Gamecube again. Before long, I made it a mission to get every Final Fantasy ever. It just escalated after that and for a while, I couldn't stop. Every time I would see something that I would want I felt like it was my only chance to get it.
I've since slowed down, and now I'm very picky with what I collect. Sure, I get new gen games, but I don't count those. A lot of what I do now is getting stuff I absouletly love or feel will go up in value over time. ie, xenoblade, Last Story, Disgaea Collector Edition, etc.
If you're looking for LE's that have always become ridiculously rare & valuable ridiculously quickly...I've done very well w/ the LE's I'd pre-ordered for both Neptune games.
If you ever see a third - I'd say stock-up on 'em :)
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I started the day my grandfather bought me my 1st Atari 2600 when i was 7 and i still own it today. Got Pac-Man, Combat, Kangaroo, Frogger and Phoenix that day.
Later on I remember going to garage sales on my bike hunting down old Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, and NES games when most people only cared about Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. Some of my rarest games today i found back in those days when no one cared about old video games. lol
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Like many of the other people in this topic, I was started on gaming in general by my grandparents. My grandma had an NES and every day after elementary school I would walk to their house down the block from the school and we would see how far we could get in SMB3. Meanwhile, my uncle who still lived there would play the more "advanced" games like Punch Out and Zelda 2. As I grew older, I stayed largely a Nintendo kid, and I would play awesome games like the Megaman X's and Earthbound. I enjoyed being able to play the "advanced" games I admired watching my uncle play. Eventually I got a PSX for my birthday, and that's when I really started to get into RPG's. I used to own games like Tales of Destiny 1 and 2, Valkyrie Profile, Dragon Warrior 7, etc., but I was young and stupid, so most of these games weren't cared for or lost. To add to that, my mother, who is a Filipino immigrant, donated all of my old cartridges to the Philippines. I was devastated at the time, but now I can appreciate the action, and I hope that some Filipino children got the same enjoyment playing them as I did. So, I guess one reason I started collecting was to recapture those moments from my childhood.
Once I went to college I got a part time job a local Gamestop (please don't strike me!), and while the company is evil, it proved an excellent way to start collecting current games. Additionally, I prided myself on being a wealth of information, whether it was a recommendation, a plotline, gameplay tips or just the state of gaming in general. Sure, usually a guy would just come in and bluntly ask for Madden, but sometimes I could actually have a great conversation with somebody about a particular game or game mechanics. I started to write mini articles about games I enjoy, and funny things we expect as normal within the confines of video games. Of course, I feel like I can't really fully speak on a game with any sort of authority unless I've played it myself. So, I guess the other reason I collect games is the pursuit of knowledge.
As a final note, my sister recently had a boy, so I hope that in the future I'll be the cool video game playing uncle :-P
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I hope that in the future I'll be the cool video game playing uncle :-P
It's funny you end your post with that comment.
When I was a kid we had an Atari 2600. We played the hell out of that for a few years. One of my earliest memories as a kid was sitting in my dads lap steering an Atari racing wheel.
But after a few years, they sold the 2600, and bought a NES from my cool video game playing uncle :P hahaha.
After that, I was hooked on games. I collected for years, until the 64 era and had a modest collection of more select, awesome games. I never went deep into the collecting then. Maybe had about 100 games.
Then, as an adult, when I moved across the country, the incident I deem as "The Parental Yard-Sale Accident of 2007" occured. My parents got confused with my piles of boxes in storage and accidently put Keeper boxers and in the yard sale and kept boxes of stuff I didnt want that was supposed to be put in the yard sale. I lost such great games as Little Samson, the NES / SNES / 64 Mega Man series (although Mega Man V for Game Boy managed to make it through the years... so glad for that with current knowledge hahaha), the NES / SNES / N64 Zelda series, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Harvest Moon for SNES / N64, and the Final Fantasy NES / SNES games.
About a year and a half ago now I started working at one of the most wellknown oldschool game stores in Alberta, so I was able to start rebuying the games I lost.
Which leads to now, my addiction of collecting! It's really consumed me!
So nowadays, I have the biggest video game and foreign film dvd collection of any of my friends. And I'm also a cool video game playing uncle and video game playing dad :P My son is only 2 and he already loves playing Mario on the NES ... poor Mario ... he's lost thousands of lives for my sons entertainment hahahahaha
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Cheers!!
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I've never not collected video games. I've never parted with my games and I never will. The only games that have ever disappeared on me have been because my brother hates me and sold games out from under me.
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I bought a Milton Bradley Dark tower game for a quarter at a boys scout yard sale. I loved that game as a kid, and after that, I just started collecting all the video games and toys I remembered from growing up.
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I've always been a gamer, for as long as I can remember. I started off on the old NES stomping Goombas. So I've always had video games. But I'd say I was in late high school (maybe a junior?, it's been over a decade) that I looked back and realized how many games and systems I'd own if I would just stop trading in games at FuncoLand (now GameStop) and getting ripped off. Then I started getting nostalgic for the old systems (mostly NES at the time) and started hunting them down at used music shops. This was before the "retro-fad" began, so the games were dirt cheap since everyone at the time thought 2D gaming was passé and 3D polygons were the only way to go.
Since then, it's gotten a little out of control, lol. I own over 20 systems and around 500 games and I see no end in sight. My wishlist just keeps growing as I learn about more games.
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Sounds like you got into the hobby at just the right time burningdoom!
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well, im a bit younger and didn't grow up when the nes came out. it was my brothers. but i played it alot. same as snes and n64(all my lucky brothers) then he sold them. years later all he had left was the nes with a about 15 games and i was in to now a day games(xbox 360).well randomly a retro gaming store came in to my town,he had alot of cool sounding games...but i didn't have a system(except an nes) for them so i bought a fc3 plus and started buying games just for fun then got more into it cuase of all the awesomr sounding gamesso i started disliking my fc3 and went on to buying the orginal systems... well meanless to say i got a little hooked... a few games turned into me buying lots on ebay to me asking my friends if they wanted to sell there games.i've only been collecting games for about 3 months now and it's awesome!!! i've always been into collectibles(i make a living buying and selling old antique pocketwatches random ah?) so i've always had a collectors mind and have some knowledge in older collectibles to gain knowledge about this stuff and its awesome to have video games as a hobby,fun to talk about fun to play
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I really was collecting video games my whole entire life. Only a select few games I traded in when I was a child. Now I regret doing that just for collectors sake. My official start of collecting video games started when I purchased the SEGA Dreamcast from a Retro Video Game store. Thats when I started to go to thrift stores and retro game stores more often in search of video games.